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(
s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xivm
)
ils eussent suffoué les murs, nient sachantz les Sarrazins, et mistrent feu dedeinz les pertuz
Rich I 29.13
2to bury, hide underground:
(
s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2
)
pus paremplez le pot de purneles e sufouez le souz terre .ix. nuitz
A-N Med ii 268
3to dig up, uncover:
(
c.1270; MS: c.1270-75
)
les marchaunz de seincte Eglise mettent lur tresor la u laruns nel poent embler ne suffuir
Apoc Abingdon 1006
v.intrans.
to dig beneath or at the base:
(
1190-93; MS: s.xiv1
)
Ly autre a besche e od pichois [...] Suffoient entur la parei
S Edm LifeANTS 3153
p.p. as s.
something that has been undermined:
(
s.xii1; MS: c.1145
)
Esprise de fu e suffoide (Latin: suffossa)(var.
(P: s.xii4/4) suffodie
), de l'encrepement del tuen volt perirunt
Oxf PsANTS 91.79.17
[suffuir] (s.xii1)